As a kid, Jeepers Creepers 2 and I have some fond memories. I remember watching it on premium cable and loving it. I bought the DVD and watched it a couple more times after that. I was in love with the film and everything about it. But like all childhood movies, we must fess up and admit it, usually, they're not too great. This one is no exception. The suspense is there, the setting as well, but technical errors and idiotic characters plague this film.
The errors in this film are wide, but I picked out a few that I found out without looking at sites that spoil them. If this is supposed to be spring, why is the corn dead? It should be sprouting and just beginning to grow. The Creeper is supposed to only kill a certain type of people, you'll see, but the first three killed on the bus do not fall into this category. Not to mention, why are there only three cheerleaders on the entire bus? Where are the parents? And why is this supposedly long rode called "East 9" vacant? So many question - zero answers. I wasn't even trying to pick out flaws. It was inevitable after twenty minutes I kept noticing more and more.
Despite all the flaws, I hate to admit, I liked Jeepers Creepers 2. It brought back vivid memories of late nights when I stayed up to watch this. It picks up four days after the first with a bus full of happy teenagers returning home after winning their basketball championship. When the bus gets a flat, they check the tire and pursue on before blowing another tire which strands them on a road called East 9.
Three faculty members are taken abruptly by the winged creature known as "The Creeper" (Breck) who comes out every twenty three years for twenty three days and takes random people to feast on. He needs their external/internal organs the humans provide to function for himself (if he eats an eye, he can see, etc). The leader of the pack when the faculty is dead is the game bench-warmer Scotty (Nenninger). Scotty tries to develop plans to keep the group alive till morning. Since this is the last day of his feast, he scurries to find people to collect.
The scares in the film are there. Not full force, but they are present. The whole suspense and uneasy feel is brought back from the original. You're with a group of teenagers, all your same age, stuck on a bus in the middle of nowhere. Cell phone reception is obsolete and no one is answering the CB radio in the bus. It has a certain camp factor, and really utilizes its setting well.
I still am completely fond of "The Creeper" character, and would like to see Johnathan Breck come back for the open, yet not filmed, Jeepers Creepers 3: Cathedral. Something about a winged, cloaked inhumane figure swooping down, grabbing someone by his claws, and flying back up in the air just really entertains me. It's got a very well made creep factor to it. Like an old fifties/sixties horror film.
Jeepers Creepers 2 is far from perfect. It doesn't capture every element, and doesn't live up to the first film, but really keeps the tonality of sudden, unsuspecting terror going in the sequel. Director Victor Salva wants to get the ball rolling on the third installment. My advice, keep the scares fierce and the action consistent. We don't have to end the franchise on an abrupt, obscure note.
Starring: Johnathan Breck, Ray Wise, Luke Edwards, and Eric Nenninger. Directed by: Victor Salva.
The errors in this film are wide, but I picked out a few that I found out without looking at sites that spoil them. If this is supposed to be spring, why is the corn dead? It should be sprouting and just beginning to grow. The Creeper is supposed to only kill a certain type of people, you'll see, but the first three killed on the bus do not fall into this category. Not to mention, why are there only three cheerleaders on the entire bus? Where are the parents? And why is this supposedly long rode called "East 9" vacant? So many question - zero answers. I wasn't even trying to pick out flaws. It was inevitable after twenty minutes I kept noticing more and more.
Despite all the flaws, I hate to admit, I liked Jeepers Creepers 2. It brought back vivid memories of late nights when I stayed up to watch this. It picks up four days after the first with a bus full of happy teenagers returning home after winning their basketball championship. When the bus gets a flat, they check the tire and pursue on before blowing another tire which strands them on a road called East 9.
Three faculty members are taken abruptly by the winged creature known as "The Creeper" (Breck) who comes out every twenty three years for twenty three days and takes random people to feast on. He needs their external/internal organs the humans provide to function for himself (if he eats an eye, he can see, etc). The leader of the pack when the faculty is dead is the game bench-warmer Scotty (Nenninger). Scotty tries to develop plans to keep the group alive till morning. Since this is the last day of his feast, he scurries to find people to collect.
The scares in the film are there. Not full force, but they are present. The whole suspense and uneasy feel is brought back from the original. You're with a group of teenagers, all your same age, stuck on a bus in the middle of nowhere. Cell phone reception is obsolete and no one is answering the CB radio in the bus. It has a certain camp factor, and really utilizes its setting well.
I still am completely fond of "The Creeper" character, and would like to see Johnathan Breck come back for the open, yet not filmed, Jeepers Creepers 3: Cathedral. Something about a winged, cloaked inhumane figure swooping down, grabbing someone by his claws, and flying back up in the air just really entertains me. It's got a very well made creep factor to it. Like an old fifties/sixties horror film.
Jeepers Creepers 2 is far from perfect. It doesn't capture every element, and doesn't live up to the first film, but really keeps the tonality of sudden, unsuspecting terror going in the sequel. Director Victor Salva wants to get the ball rolling on the third installment. My advice, keep the scares fierce and the action consistent. We don't have to end the franchise on an abrupt, obscure note.
Starring: Johnathan Breck, Ray Wise, Luke Edwards, and Eric Nenninger. Directed by: Victor Salva.